Bottle cap remover of wall-type



April 15, 1958 w. A. STRAUB 2,330,477

' BOTTLE CAP REMOVER OF WALL-TYPE Filed Feb. 4, 1957 INVENTOR. arson/ 7. QSTEQUB BYMVWVZ I United States Patent BOTTLE CAP REMOVER 0F WALL-TYPE Watson A. Straub, Butler, Pa. Application February 4, 1957, Serial No. 638,049 4 Claims. (Cl. 81-33) My invention relates to bottle cap removers for removing caps of crown types from beverage bottles and the like, and has for its object the provision of an opener that can readily be carried and installed on any wall surface without the use of a screw driver or hammer.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the cap remover.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

This opener is of the ordinary wire clothes hook type in that it will screw into a wall. The wire is bent to loop form at and one leg 11 of the wire extending substantially straight up and then backwardly at 12, the extension 12 being threaded for screwing into a wall. The other leg 13 extends upwardly and then downwardly and upwardly to form a closed loop 14 that has a hook 15 thereon, and is twisted at 17.

A plate 18 is held in the loop 10 by ears 19 bent around the sides of the loop. The upper edge of the plate is flanged outwardly at 20 to serve as an abutment or seat for a bottle cap that is inserted beneath the hook 13 and then tilted downwardly to efiect removal of a 2,830,477 Patented Apr. 15, 1958 "ice crown cap. The plate can suitably be imprinted with advertising matter.

I claim as my invention:

1. A wall attached bottle opener comprising an elongated split wire loop adapted to lie against the face of a wall, first and second end portions of the loop terminating mid-way of a long side of said loop, first and second leg portions extending alongside each other upwardly from the respective leg portions and in the same plane with said loop, said first leg portion having a lateral extension terminating in a threaded portion for securing the opener to a wall, said second leg portion continuing into a forward and downward portion which is then bent back upon itself and terminates in an extension wrapped about said lateral portion, and said forward and downward portion terminating in a nose portion directed toward said loop plane to form a hook to engage under the skirt of abot-tle cap to be removed.

2. An opener as defined in claim 1, wherein a plate is disposed flatwise on the loop.

3. An opener as defined in claim 2, wherein the plate has hook-like lips bent over the upper and lower portions of the loop near each end of the loop.

4. An opener as defined in claim 2, wherein the plate has an outstanding lip that serves as a seating surface for the top of a bottle cap Whose skirt edge can engage beneath said hook.

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